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The Blackbird Effect
This is a re-issue of a post from my old blog that people have asked for. SR-71 Blackbird. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The SR-71 Blackbird, a global reconnaissance aircraft developed by the United...
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The domino effect of technical debt
Most people who do coaching work in the IT space focus on one of three areas: (a) technical practices, (b) process improvement, and (c) organizational dynamics or “human factors.” It’s not unusual for...
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Size doesn’t matter
It’s a commonplace that large organizations tend to be stodgy and bureaucratic, and smaller ones tend to be innovative and flexible. When we see a large organization that seems to be innovative and...
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Some thoughts on scaling agile software delivery
Premise: Agile principles depend on biologically hard-wired limits on the effective size of collaborative human groups. For this reason, agile methods as such do not scale to “enterprise” levels. A...
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A modest proposal for restructuring enterprise IT
Submitted for your consideration: The simplest way to solve a problem is not to solve it at all, but to define it out of existence. Many of the challenges we face in corporate IT may be caused by...
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It’s getting harder to find bad examples
The bad news for a smart-alecky blogger is that it’s getting harder to find examples of companies that handle their IT function foolishly. But that’s good news for the IT industry! In a piece from...
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Choosing an Agile Scaling Framework
Many larger organizations are considering adopting an Agile scaling framework to help them extend contemporary practices beyond the proof-of-concept stage. Plenty of people stand ready to help them...
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Where Agile goes to die
There’s something I started to notice around 2011, but didn’t quite understand until recently. Now I think I have a handle on it. From time to time I hear agile coaches describe a particular client...
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